Beauty

[kiki2]

Hiya girls.

I wouldn't even know where to begin on the last 11 days that just flew by. Last week was so chaotic and I know I wasn't helping myself either. I kept waking up in a panic that had me hit the ground running, trying to work around the flat and 'catch up'. I'd lost all of Jan. getting off that med. then into Feb with that DEA mess. I'm no where near where I'd like to be for the way life is rolling itself out lately. sigh...

And alot of it's good stuff too. I was scheduled to work at Ulta this past Sat and there where 2 call outs. I ended up staying near a full 8 hours which was a first. We were jammin busy, insanely so. I remember looking at my watch around 4pm. Then next time I even thought to look it was 7pm. I'd lost 3 hours! It went by like 10 minutes would have. I crawled home that night. All I could do was get as ready for the next day as I could and immediately get to bed.

Then 3 more call outs on Sunday. It was a 50/50 conversation but pretty much I'd agreed to turn around and come right back in again, in. the. morning.! Egads, what was I thinking, lol. But I did it, successfully too. In fact this past weekend I was pretty much running solo in Prestige & BE's section. My Prestige Mgr was one of the call outs. My cohort was booked back to back on makeovers. It seems these days it's the 'thing to do' for the young girlies going out to a HS dance. They come in and get there makeup done.

I did more makeunders these two days then I did over Holiday. I had a couple of challenges and surprised myself in doing well with them. I've seen some pretty amazing & heartbreaking complexions lately. One gal was at her wits end with her BE. She'd been matched already, twice! Both times no one bothered to see that she had a serious area of a deeper skintone that was throwing off her whole appilcation. And no one bothered to share with her how to work with this area. Oh this broke my heart it did. When I was done she started to cry, she was so happy. That made me get all emotional, I was so tired! haha. No, I was also super happy that we'd conquered it and she was gorgeous. She had to of hugged me a 1/2 dz times I think.

I also have to know some of whats going on in the Prestige section that includes Smashbox, UD, Too Faced, Tarte,. etc etc. AND be/get more familiar with drugstore brands. Yowza! I had a Prestige makeover first thing Sunday morning. Now thats hitting the ground running I'd say.

Monday at the shop went from ahhh nice & quiet into a zoo. Around 2pm 15 people came in over 12 minutes time. WT?! They all bought stuff [we're in markdowns] and I ended up doing as much business as they do on a Sat. with two girls there! OMGosh!

By Tuesday I was in a ball curled up on my sofa. Then my supers came by, good ole Mutt & Jeff I call them, to work on some things that needed fixing. I had to empty out my bath for this. They leave and the next thing I know I'm getting down & dirty tearing it apart, cleaning it and at least in this, I did get it put back together. But better! It's really My Office, haha. BE wallpaper and all. Nutso me really shouldn't of moved even an inch on Tuesday. My legs, aw h3ll! my whole body refused to warm up this day. Moving around was a sonofayouknowwhat!

And of course I'm way off in getting to bed. The past 2 weeks my night owl DNA has kicked back in and I'm just a mess in not being able to sleep. I'm also thinking I've got too much on my mind that I'm not able to switch off like I normally can. The world is so quiet right now. The sky is bright and clear. It's almost a bit magical in this middle of the night right now.

Last week I did finally end, close the door, burn the bridge to Singapore. I'd been 'working' on it for the past 4 months, seeing the visit in hindsight and all and well, I decided after 33 yrs that I'm worth more and he's not. Period. It's still had an effect on me, tho postive...empowered, I'm sad. I saw a doc today and he'd said it sounded like I just got divorced from my second marriage. Now that was scary. I KNOW I'll be just fine, spiffy I'd say. His loss, right!

My computer had crashed again last week and it's still really funky now. I feel like I'm in a battle with this new AVG bff put on it last Dec. It freezes up even with only 3 windows open. On the chance I can sit here I can't even get into my email account. Mostly tho, I've been out or working on my home.

I really MISS being here with you guys something awful. I don't feel grounded if I've not been here for a while and it's not a fun feeling at all. Heck I wouldn't even be where I'm now at if it weren't for all of you girls! I mean that from the bottom of my heart! And, in pushing some of my limits it's been very diffucult to 'do it all'. I'm not quite sure what to do about all of it just yet. I feel I have to try this 'pushing my limits', at least try. See if I can maintain it too. Like I said when I started, I don't know where to begin. Even in this. {yes, I know that by this point chat has gotten way to long so I did begin in sharing most of what has happened. It can start to spill out when I'm not even sure what I'm writing, eh?}

And our Miss V has had quite a rough go of it and we've been spending more time to get her thru it and onto her 'next' back appointment. Don't get me started! We are finally this >l< close to getting her a back brace that she can wear TO get her to this March appointment. Lordy, I still want to throttle her family.

Hmmm, so thats that I think. For now. I'll be home the next couple of days except for a 2 hour training window back at Ulta. And if there aren't any call outs. Oh I'm SO happy to be HOME! And...here.

I should be able to read some and catch up on everyone later today. Fingers crossed my pretties!

Big Hugs!